Bogenberg District Museum
The Bogenberg district museum (responsible for the district of Straubing-Bogen ) is in an exposed position above the town of Bogen on the summit of the Bogenberg opposite the Bogenberg pilgrimage church . The facility is under monument protection , files No. D-2-78-118-40. The district museum is located in the former parish hall from the 19th century and in the older rooms of the former Bogenberg elementary school. In the museum building there is a medieval fountain from 1400.
location
In the immediate vicinity of the district museum is the Bogenberg rectory, once a priory of the Oberalteich Benedictines, then a rectory and, since 2012, the monastery of the Polish Franciscan Minorites. The late medieval pilgrimage church with the striking hexagonal church tower from around 1300, in which the unusual medieval miraculous image of a pregnant Mother of God dominates the Bogenberg summit. There are also historical stalls. Another three medieval chapels, Way of the Cross, Kalvarienberg, Einsiedlerklause characterize the sacral landscape of Bogenberg, the "Holy Mountain of Lower Bavaria". The expansive view of the Danube plain once offered the Bogenberg monks the opportunity to observe the weather and has been discovered and described in travel guides as a “beautiful view” since the 19th century, and hiking trails have been developed. All these aspects and more can be found - with cultural-historical exhibits and explanations - in the permanent exhibition of the district museum.
History and use
In 1909 the "District Museum Bogen" was founded by District Administrator Nibler as a "Local History Museum" in order to preserve the "antiquities" of art and cultural history on site. By purchasing a collection of valuable sacred sculptures by the Mitterfels bailiff, Scharl, Nibler laid the foundation for the collection, which to this day includes art and cultural history from the region of the district (since 1972 the district of Straubing-Bogen). The regional museum was initially located in the Bogen district office, later in different locations in Bogen, until it was able to move to the vacant parish hall on the Bogenberg in 1962. Here the district museum found a continuous expansion: rooms were added and converted for museum purposes; the collection is expanded and looked after, the museum activities intensified, a full-time museum management established in 2010.
Finally, up to its hundredth birthday in 2009, the district museum received a permanent exhibition with a new design in terms of content and form: The classic " Heimatmuseum " was transformed into a modern, didactic and interactive cultural history special museum, the focus of which is on the history of the Bavarian Rauten and the Bogenberg. In addition, the regularly held special exhibitions offer the opportunity to present the diverse history of the district in various facets.
Themes and exhibits
The Bavarian diamonds
The current permanent exhibition offers two main topics: The history of the Bavarian diamonds, which descended from the Counts of Bogen, who formerly lived near Bogenberg , is thematized on the ground floor. The district of Straubing-Bogen, which calls itself the “home of the Bavarian Rautenwappen”, shows in its museum “Knights, Rauten and Co.”: It is about the Counts of Bogen, their heirs, the Wittelsbachers and the Rautenwappen as Bavarian national coat of arms in general. The white and blue diamonds outside the national coat of arms are also presented in their function as a logo and a well-known modern “trademark” of Bavaria - and how it came about. Diverse historical and contemporary diamond objects from the fields of heraldry, the use of the state coat of arms and use outside of the state coat of arms show how widespread the diamonds are today and what significance they have.
Bogenberg: pilgrimage to a pregnant mother of God and a destination
The upper floor of the museum deals with the Marien pilgrimage in Bogenberg and its 900-year history from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Pentecost pilgrimage of the Holzkirchener with its oversized votive offering , the "long rod", the special miraculous image of a pregnant Mother of God with a visible baby Jesus ( Maria Gravida ) is presented in valuable exhibits (e.g. 18th century painting, ivory Madonna etc.) , the Bogenberg as the "Holy Mountain of Lower Bavaria". Its touristic discovery, hiking, gastronomy history, the theme of pilgrimage and trade can also be seen. Sacred objects on popular piety form the framework of the show .
Special exhibitions
Regularly changing special exhibitions are organized from the collections of the museum, which is over a hundred years old, and with loans. The focus is on aspects of the art and cultural history of the Straubing-Bogen district. (Topics e.g. photography, living, tin toys, pilgrimage, nativity scenes, etc.) The exhibitions are accompanied by educational museum activities.
The special exhibition from May 21 to October 29, 2017 was titled: "FROM THE CHARM OF THE OLD THINGS - Museum objects SEEN NEW".
literature
- Barbara Michal, museum guide, sheet 2009.
- Hans Neueder, Hundred Years of Kreismuseum Bogenberg (1909–2009) (Museum Booklet No. 4), Bogen 2009.
- Barbara Michal: Bogenberg, Bayerische Rauten and much more ... The new district museum Bogenberg, in: museum 38. Facts, tendencies, help, ed. State Office for Non-State Museums, Munich 2010, pp. 12–15.
- Barbara Michal: From head to toe. Clothes and people in the country. Published for the special exhibition 2015 - 2016. ISBN 978-3-00-056155-9
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Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 12 ° 41 ′ 50 ″ E